My guns are bigger than yours.
I have been very loathe to check the news over the past few days. After the political assassination of Ahmed Yassin that took place earlier this week. I fear the retribution that will take place on behalf of this 'Terrorist' leader.
I will be honest with you here - When I see a report of a bus blowing up in Israel, I think to myself -
'how unfortunate, civilians have died for nothing, and more are going to die because of Israeli retribution, hopefully Israel and the US can nut out a plan and endeavour to make it work... this has to stop happening, what drives the suicide bomber to take his own life for the cause?'
The other day when the Israeli gunships disposed of their payloads I thought -
'What a blatant abuse of power and quite possibly the stupidest tactical move for any party that apparently desire peace'
Suicide bombing isn't right. Political assassinations against hostile groups such as Hamas are just plain stupid. Don't Israel see that with their power they have a certain amount of responsibility? By all means, try and capture these leaders and charge them with crimes, but killing them is ridiculous, and I have nothing but contempt for the state of Israel right now.
Its almost as though they see civilian life's as mere collateral damage. I am not sure if I am offering any profound words of wisdom here, but did the Israeli's sincerely believe that by killing the spiritual leader of Hamas the suicide bombings would stop? more people are going to die over the next twelve months than since the Intifada started in 1998 - this is not a guess, its almost a certainty.
I wish I knew how the Israeli people thought about this, because they are the ones that eat at the cafes, go to the night clubs, and catch the bus - do they feel comfortable with their government protaganising one of the more dangerous organisations on the planet? Do they know it is going to be them that suffers the casualties? not soldiers who understand what they are up for when the go to fight in a war?
I don't profess to know the solution to the suicide bombings. I imagine if I found a genie in a bottle and I had 3 wishes, I would like to think that is one of them. This is a vicious cycle, and because of the locality of the problem, and the meaning of the area to both Jewish, and Muslims, the whole globe is affected by the ongoing problems. Israel have successfully prolonged the issue, and have consented to the death of more civilians.
Hamas are not a responsible organisation - they will go and create havoc and bloodshed, and they care not for the consequences - this fact is as plain as daylight itself. Israel has a position of responsibility to protect its citizens. I would hardly say that they have been appeasing Hamas and such over the past 6 years. The fact is the Muslims are used to oppression - they dont really have that much to lose.
Israeli's might just have to get more accustomed to suicide bombings as long as the Zionist's hold sway.